CRASH NIGHTMARE
Boy, 11, two teens killed in B’klyn
An 11-year-old boy and two teenagers were killed when their car slammed into another while the vehicles were doing stunts in a Brooklyn park, police and sources said Sunday.
A 2020 Toyota Camry driven by an unidentified 16-year-old collided with a 2014 Kia Forte on Aviation Road in Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field at around 8:15 p.m. Saturday, killing Kia driver Emil Badalov, 16, and passengers Margarita Sidgiyayeva, 18, and her brother, Daniel Sidgiyayeva, 11, cops said.
A fourth person in the Kia, a 16year-old girl who was not identified, was in critical condition at NYU Langone Hospital.
The driver of the Toyota and his two passengers, a 16-year-old girl, and an 18-year-old man who were also not identified, suffered minor injuries.
Daniel Sidgiyayeva was later pronounced dead at Kings County Hospital, and his sister and Badalov were pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Brooklyn, police said.
Photos taken after the accident show the Kia in a tangle of twisted metal, with the driver’s side entirely demolished, and both left-side tires bent outward
All of those in the Kia and some in the Toyota had to be extricated by responders, amNY reported.
“It’s a very bad situation,” a relative of the Sidgiyayevas told The Post as the family gathered in mourning at their East 14th Street home in Brooklyn. “We don’t know what to say.”
Badalov and Margarita Sidgiyayeva had been dating for about 2¹/2 years, according to his sister.
“My mother doesn’t want to talk,” she said. “She just can’t.”
She did not know the circumstances behind the crash, but police, who arrived at the scene at 8:18 p.m., said the cars had been doing doughnuts on the North 40 Runway at the old airfield, part of Gateway National Recreation Area.
She said she was home when she received a call to tell her, “My brother isn’t really breathing. So, I just had to go over there.”
The accident is being probed by the NYPD Highway Unit Collision Investigation Squad, the department said. There have been no arrests.
Officials at the National Park Service, which maintains the area, did not respond to a request for comment.